Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Composers combine notes, that's all.

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

I am an inventor of music.